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TRIFLE

/ˈtɹaɪfəl/6 letters

Definition of TRIFLE

noun

An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Revealed only in play
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TRIFLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 30 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
30
Boards found on
19
First board
94
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

balloonman

on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRIFLE
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TRIFLE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFILRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TRIFLE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TRIFLEDTRIFLERTRIFLESTRIFLERS

Could you have found TRIFLE?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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